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Introduction

I was told about this book by Barbara Urbanska Yeager.
She explained
that this Russian book is an anthology of memoirs and articles about the
Holocaust in the former Soviet territories and it is significant because
we know little about the Holocaust in those areas. It is also interesting
that it was published in Jerusalem in 1970 (when these areas were still
under Soviet control) and in Kiev in 1991.

About the same time, Larry Gillig contacted me to
offer to help me with Russian translations. And that is how Larry
"offered"
to translate the table of contents of The Black Book. We hope that we can
get more of the book translated.

Joyce Field

THE BLACK BOOK

About the evil, universal murder of Jews
By the German-Fascist Aggressors
In the temporarily occupied regions
Of the Soviet Union
And in the Camps of Poland
During the War 1941  1945

Compiled and Edited by
Vasily Grossman
Ilya Erenburg

Kiev
M.I.P. Oberig
1991

[Note: The Hebrew title page indicates that the book had been published
in Jerusalem (in Russian) in 1970.]

From the publishers of The Black Book

IX

The annihilation of the Jewish population.

X

From the history of the manuscript The Black Book.

XIII

From the editors of The Black Book.

1

Vasily Grossman, Foreword.

3

UKRAINE

Kiev, Babi Yar. Articles based on documentary materials
and evidence of Kievans.
Prepared for publication by Lev Ozerov.

23

The Murder of Jews in Berdichev. Author: Vasily
Grossman.

32

Talnoe. Author Vladimr Lidin.

43

Resistance in Yarmolits (Reported by E. Laitzman).
Prepared for publication by Ilya Erenburg.

45

How the Woman-Doctor Langman perished (Sorochintsy).
Prepared for publication by Ilya Erenburg.

46

In the Vinnitsa region.

1. In the city of
Khmelnik (Reported by E. Becker) Prepared for publication by R.Kovnator.

55

2. In the hamlet of
Yaryshevo. Reported by O. Yakhot and M. Brekhman.
Prepared for publication
by Ilya Erenburg.

3. In the village of
Tzibulevo. Prepared for publication by Ilya Erenburg.

56

4. In the hamlet of
Yaltushkovo. Reported by Hero of the Soviet Union young lieutenant
Kravtsov.
Prepared for
publication by Ilya Erenburg.

5. In the Motherland.
(Brailov). Author: Captain Yefim Hechtman

57

What I survived in Kharkov. A letter by Maria Markovna
Sokol.
Prepared for publication by Ilya Erenburg.

68

Pyotr Chepurenko. Witness to the Piryatynsky Massacre.
Prepared for publication by Ilya Erenburg.

74

The destruction of the Jewish collective farmers of
Zelenopolya.
Prepared for publication by Ilya Erenburg.

75

Letters from Dniepropetrovsk. Prepared for publication
by G. Munblit.

1. Letters of Mr. And
Mrs. Indikt.

76

2. October 13, 1941. As
told by A.M. Burtseva.

70

3. The account of E.A.
Revenska.

82

4. The account of B. Y.
Tartakovska.

84

A letter from Officer Granovsky (Yekaterinopol).
Prepared for publication by Ilya Erenburg.

85

The Diary of Sara Gleich (Marinupol). Prepared for
publication by Ilya Erenburg.

87

Odessa. Author: Vera Tsiber, according to materials and
evidence furnished by residents of Odessa.

From the Journal of Dr. Buyvadaite-Kutorgenie. Prepared
for publication by R. Kovnator.

The fate of the Jews from the city of Telshiai.
(translator's note: In Jewish circles this city is often referred to by
its Yiddish name, Telz),
as told by Galina Masyupis and Suzanna Kagan.
Prepared for publication by O. Savich.

LATVIA

Riga. Author: Capt. Yefim Hechtman.

1. Germans enter
the city.

300

2. Above Riga .
Night.

303

3. The first days
of the occupation.

305

4. The ghetto.

310

5. Deportations
from the ghetto.

319

6. The first aktion.

312

7. Jews from
Germany.

320

8. The camp at
Salaspils.

323

From the diary of the sculptor Rivosh (Riga).
Prepared for publication by Vasily Grossman and R. Kovnator.

327

The story of the Shpuktin family of Dvinsk. Prepared
for publication by O. Savich.